Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-12

At the Irish National League Meeting
Yesterday.
POLICE FIRE on The CROWDS.

LONDON, September 10.-Seyen thou
sand persons had assembled at the meet
ing held to express indignation at the Gov
ernment's prosecution of Mr.. O'Brien,
which was to be addressed by Messrs. La
~bouchere, Dillon, Drummer, Gill, Condor
and John Ellis, members Of Parliament
A government stenographer, wishan escort
of sixty policemen, ~endeavored to push
through the crowd to the foot Of the plat
form. His progress was resisted and the
police attempted to open apassage for him.
The crowd attacked the police with sticks
and stones, and the latter retaliated by
charging with drawn batons, but were re-
pulsed by a body of Nationalist on horse
back.
Mr.. Condor at this point i~nterpOsed
from the platform, and succeeded in paci-
flying the crowd. Mr.. Dillon then ad-
dressed the people, advising them to treat
the police with silent contempt, because
Home Rule was nearly wop, and when it
became an established fact the Irish forces
would be under control of the people in
stead OF their enemies. The speech of Mr..
Dillon had little effect upon the exasper-
ated crowd, and the conflict between them
aud the police was shortly afterward re-
newed, the police being driven into their
barracks.
From this point Of vantage the police
fired into the crowd, killing n man in
stantly, fatally wounding another who has
since died, and severely injuring several
others. Taking advantage Of the demon
alizing effect of their fire, the police sal
lied forth from the barracks, and charged
upon the mob with fixed bayonets. This
was more than the crowd could stand, and
they hastily dispersed. A number of po-
lice were injured.
The police at Mitchelstown assert that
the trouble there yesterday was due to the
Nationalist leaders shouting to the mob to
hold together.
The town is comparatively quiet to-day,
and people are standing about in knots dis
cussing yesterdays tragedy.
The Nationalist are exultant over the
good fight they made. A Tipperary boy
broke through a square composed of twelve
policemen and fought them single-hauded.
The police finally oyerpowered him, but
the mob made a rush and rescued him from
his captOrs.
The police paraded this morning. A
majority of them wore bandages over the
wounds they received yesterday. Four
teen policemen were injured during the
rioting and have been carried to the hos
pital.
All the persons who attended yester-
DAYS meeting LaVe Eot"r~ed 80 th0h
homes. Fifty-four constables were injured
to such an extent that physicians services
were required. One hundred and fifty civ
ilians were also injured.
EXCITEMENT IN PARLIAMENT.
In the House of Commons to-day, Mr..
John G. Gibson, Solicitor General for Ire
land, in reply to an interrogatOry by Mr..
Sexton, said that the Government did not
have sufficient information to make a state
ment in relation to the troubleat Mitchels-
town yesterday.
Upon receiving this answer to his ques-
ton Mr.. Sexton said:
az shall resist any progress ofthe Appro-
priatiOn bill until the Government gives
the desired information" LParnellite
cheers
The Government have issued an urgent
whip to their supporters to attend the sit
ting of the House Of Commons on Monday
during the debate on the proclamation Of
the Ennis meeting. They have decided to
apply the cloture rule the first night.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
The Netrs to-day SAYS: Coercion was
not long in bearing its bitterest fruits.
The Government to provoke blOodshed in
Ireland. Blood has been shed in perfect
wantouness, and hatchery is it's most re
voting feature"
The Post says the MitchelStown affair
shows the necessity for the full application
OF the Crimes Act to prevent such meet
ings altogether.
The Times says the blood Of the Mltchels-
town victims is on the heads Of MessrS.
O'Brien, Davitt and LabOuchere, whose
inflamatory and cynical language drove
men against the muzzles of rifles. This
teaches the people that although their
leaders have amusement and profit, the
people pay for it with their skins.
The Standard hopes that the spectacle
at Mitchelstown will convince Messrs. La
bouchere and Drummer of the goal whereto
their steps tend, before it is too late, or
they will he held guilty for the suffering
which otherwise ensues.
The Pail Nail Gazette saw that the
memory Of the old man R!OTdan lying
dead in the market place at MitChelstown,
his gray hair matted with blood, will
haunt both nations for many days to come,
DUBLIN EXCITED.
A Dublin dispatch says: John Dillon
has been interviewed with respect to the
riot. He said he was in the police bar
racks at the time of the shooting. He saw
the police attempting to murder a pris-
oner, and witnessed them firing out of 3
window at persons hundreds Of yards dis
tant, though no attack had been made on
/ the barracks. 1t is now learned that there
is a larger number of wounded than at
first reported. 1t is said that Q'Brien was
arrested yesterday, and there is great ca
element in Dublin.
Movements of the Emperors.
BERLIN, September 10.-The Emperor
and FmnreSs will leave Babelsberg Mon